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This week, join FoodNavigator-USA and stakeholders across the supply chain, including Eat Just, The Hartman Group, Oishii, NotCo, Instacart, NIQ, Consumer Brands Association, FMI – The Food Industry Association, Cargill and more for our three-day Futureproofing the Food System digital summit.

Food-tech is a sough-after solution to address systemic challenges facing the industry, including feeding a growing global populace, but many consumers are not convinced of its importance or worse -- they want nothing to do with it.

To feed a global population of 10bn people by 2050 we need to produce more food in the next 40 years than we have in the past 8,000 years, but as illustrated by the Green Revolution simply increasing available calories isn’t the answer – they need to be nutrient-dense and accessible so as not to contribute to diet-related chronic disease and produced in a way that doesn’t further compromise the health of the planet.

Michael Studdard passed away. This is the full obituary where you can share condolences and memories. Published in the Palestine Herald Press on 2023-09-08.

Even as cellular meat companies continue to clear regulatory, technical and scientific hurdles, the timeline for when their products will launch remains a moving target as emerging challenges – ranging from the banal to black swan events – threaten to block their progress, stakeholders told attendees earlier this month at Future Food Tech in San Francisco.